Volume 81
Private Law 90–1
For the relief of Richard L. Bass.
Approved May 29, 1967
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of Richard L. Bass.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, Richard L.
Richard L. Bass.
Bass, of Forsyth, Georgia, is relieved of liability to pay to the United States the sum of $353.05, representing the amount of salary overpayment received by him from the Department of the Air Force from October 7, 1962, through June 5, 1965, due to administrative error and without fault on his part. In the audit and settlement of the accounts of any certifying or disbursing officer of the United States, full credit shall be given for the amount of which liability is relieved by the section.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Richard L. Bass, of Forsyth, Georgia, the sum certified by him to the Secretary of the Air Force as the aggregate of amounts paid to the United States by Richard L. Bass and amounts withheld by the United States from sums otherwise due him from the United States, on account of the liability referred to in the first section of this Act No part of the amount appropriated in this section shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the previsions of the preceding sentence shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000.
Approved May 29, 1967.